Nizam-i Djedid Army

The Nizam-i Djedid Army, (also spelled Nizam-i Cedit, meaning "new order"), was the reformed army of the Ottoman Empire that was created by Sultan Selim III in 1797 as a part of his wide-scale reforms within the decaying empire. Selim reorganized the military in European fashion, with European training, tactics, weapons, and officers being employed in the new army. By 1806, the new army had 26,000 soldiers, and the army was first tested during the Egyptian Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1799. The Nizams repelled the French invasion of Syria and Palestine before fighting their way into Egypt, although they suffered defeats at the Battle of Mount Tabor and the Battle of Abukir. In 1807, the Nizam-i Djedid Army would meet a bloody end when the Janissaries overthrew and murdered the enlightened sultan and massacred or disbanded Nizam-i Djedid Army soldiers. The end of the Nizam-i Djedid Army would lead to several defeats at the hands of the Russian Empire in the following years.